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The Jumbo Kingdom was established in October 1976 by Stanley Ho after more than HK$30 million were spent to design and build it. [1] [6] It was originally decorated in the style of an ancient Chinese imperial palace. [7] Ho later purchased Tai Pak in 1980 and Sea Palace in 1982, operating all three former competitors under Jumbo Kingdom. [8]
Jumboization is a technique in shipbuilding consisting of enlarging a ship by adding an entire section to it. By contrast with refitting or installation of equipment, jumboization is a long and complex endeavour which can require a specialized shipyard.
MV Puyallup is a Jumbo Mark-II-class ferry operated by Washington State Ferries.This ferry and her two sisters are the largest in the fleet. Puyallup is normally assigned to the Edmonds–Kingston route, [1] although she is often reassigned to the Seattle–Bainbridge Island route whenever either of her sisters assigned to that route are out of service.
The world's largest cave is so big that a Boeing 747 could fly through its largest cavern unscathed. It could fit a Manhattan city block complete with 40-story skyscrapers and has its own weather ...
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Second to enter service was the Kaleetan in 1968, on the Seattle–Bainbridge Island route. The last two were the Yakima (Seattle–Bremerton) and Elwha (Seattle–Bainbridge Island), which entered service later that year. The Super class was displaced on the Seattle–Bainbridge route less than five years later by the even larger Jumbo-class ...
Lafferty received a patent for his Zoomorphic Architecture in 1882. U.S. patent 268,503. At 122 feet (37 m) tall, the Coney Island Elephant was approximately twice the dimensions of Lucy the Elephant, which had pre-dated it by four years; with the exception of the designs of their respective howdahs and the numbers and relative sizes of the windows, externally it was a nearly exact scaled-up ...
Kitchen islands are certainly useful, but are they useful enough to keep around? They take up a ton of space and require plenty of upkeep. Experts weigh in.